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Posted By: Joe_G.

This is my second National League scorebook (scorebook for the entire National League for the entire year) featuring the Detroit Wolverines. This one was issued by Mabley Co. (& the Detroit Free Press) covering the 1887 season. The other one was issued by the Detroit Tribune and covers the 1888 season. Both are complete, in excellent shape, and unscored. I like the player portraits in the Mabley / Free Press example while the Detroit Tribune has neat biographies on each of the players together with game-by-game account of the previous years Championship (Detroit won the World Championship against St. Louis Browns).

Here are a couple pages from the 1887 book.

I can't say I remember seeing these for other teams. Please share some scans if you have a similar item (even if it's not a new pick-up).

Best Regards,
Joe Gonsowski